153 Arifureta.

The light faded away and I was standing with a group of confused Japanese teens who were all panicking and looking around. We were on some kind of raised summoning platform with people in strange dresses chanting and bowing towards us with another old geezer with a staff walking towards us that reminded me a lot of Dumbledore with his grandfatherly lying smile. He slowly approached the alter.

"Welcome hero and his companions to the world of tortus please follow me so I can explain what is going on." The old geezer said as the flock of sheep.... teens quickly followed no questions asked.

I also followed along examining them I was getting quite a few curious looks aswell considering I looked like none of the others. Sitting down at one of the tables much farther away from the other students I listened to the absolute bullshit the old man fed the group of idiots.

"Our god has summoned all of you here to help rid us of demons that have been waging war against humanity for a long time. Our prophets have foretold your coming to save us and the rest of the world." The old man says.

A little girl who is apparently the teacher stood up. "You want these kids to fight in a war? Absolutely not! Send us back immediately."

"I'm sorry I told you it was our god who summoned you to this place not us. Humans don't have that kind of ability." The old liar says.

There was panic amongst the group shouts of worry about not being able to go back home were heard.

"I'm sure the god will grant your wish to return once you have defeated the demons." The old man says. "He has already granted you special powers when you arrived here to help aid you."

One of the boys who was more charismatic stood up and started shouting. "Your right I have been feeling a strange power surge up inside of me and I can't just stand back while others suffer!" His little group of minions quickly agree with him making the old mans eyes glimmer like a plan well done.

"I'm going to have to take a hard pass on all of that." I say standing up and heading for the door.

"Halt!" The old man shouts towards me.

"Oh? So are you trying to stop me from leaving or are you going to try and force me to participate in your little war?" I ask over my shoulder as he freezes.

He had just won over the rest of the students kind of and if he tries to force me to do anything he could lose the trust he has from them which would be pretty disastrous.

"What do you plan to do if your not going to participate In the war?" He asks me.

"This is a magical world right? I could explore or go play in dungeons I'm free to do whatever I want instead of hang around with some kidnappers." I say with a shrug.

"But you don't even know your class or have training!" He says.

"That's fine. Say do I get some kind of starter pack or something since you guys kidnapped me or are you going to keep me prisoner or something?" I ask the man as he is starting to get flustered.

"Of course we wouldn't just let you have nothing after being summoned here for our aid." He signals a maid who quickly bring me a few items. A dagger a pouch of gold coins and a little metal plate.

"That plate will serve as your identity token to get into the dungeon or around towns." He says with a fake smile. "Are you sure you don't want to be checked for your class?"

"Oh no it's fine I'm actually a cowardly man who has no interest in fighting and I'm just going to travel I've decided." I lie.

There's nothing he can do he has strict orders.

"Well you can check your status and class by saying status open and holding that card. Have a safe trip." He says.

"Oh one more thing where is the nearest dungeon so I can stop and see it I'm rather curious what it looks like." I ask the man who gritts his teeth again.

"A few miles to the east you can catch a carriage in the town."

"Thanks." I quickly flee the area with everyone looking at me in confusion.

"Who was that guy I don't remember him being a part of the class." One student says.

"That's because he wasn't. Unless we were expecting a new student and he got sucked along with us?" Another says looking towards the tiny teacher.

"Uh we were indeed expecting a new student I believe his name was Ryan." She says with worry.

"Let us head to the royal palace so you can meet the king and get your status plates." The old man says trying to distract the group.

Meanwhile I'm fucking booking it at fast as I can. A look at my Ring shows my status. [Hero.] along with a list of stats and skills. There's zero chance the fake god can take over my body since death would literally just destroy his soul. But I remember putting mage for my class I wanted.

"But you are a hero in my eyes." I hear death say in my mind.

"Then what did that idiot who was supposed to be the hero get for a class?" I ask her still running as fast as I can looking for a carriage.

In the throne room they were being presented status plates. The leader of the group and most charismatic proudly pulled his up for display.

[Village Idiot and Show off. A rare multi-class for someone who is a slight step above retarded and likes to put others in danger just to make himself look cool. Negative to all intellect stats.]

The king looks at all the other Statuses popping up.

"Where is the hero!?!" He shouts in panic.